![]() ![]() ![]() Separated in 1946, she turned to writing and editing to support herself and her daughter, working briefly for Bantam Books and selling more than a dozen sports stories, under the pseudonyms Eric Thorstein and Ernest Hamilton, to pulp magazines. ![]() Kornbluth, and Frederik Pohl other women included Leslie Perri and Virginia Kidd) she published a science fiction fanzine, TEMPER!, and contributed two stories under her married name to Crack Detective. Moving to Greenwich Village after the war, Merril became one of the few female members of the Futurians (the men included Isaac Asimov, James Blish, C. They married and in 1942 had a daughter, Merril, who was raised during her infancy on military bases across the country. Graduating in 1939, she met Dan Zissman at a Trotskyist Youth picnic the following year. Born in Boston, she moved to the Bronx after her freshman year in high school her father Samuel Solomon (“Shlomo”) Grossman, a columnist and drama critic for a Yiddish newspaper, had committed suicide when she was six, and her mother Ethel (Hurwitch) Grossman had accepted a job running a settlement house for juvenile offenders. ![]() Judith Merril (January 21, 1923–September 12, 1997) was the principal pseudonym under which Judith Josephine Grossman published stories, novels, and criticism beginning in 1947. ![]()
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